ARTICLE 3: Starting High School One Hour Later May Reduce Teen Traffic Accidents

This research is conduced by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. In the article they intend to explain that starting school just one hour later can reduce car traffic accidents, can improve grades in a significantly way, and can even improve attendence. In this research, researchers surveyed 9,966 students in a school on year one, which they started every day at 7:30 am high school and at 8:00 am middle school. The next year they were surveyed again, but this time they were starting school at 8:30 am high schol and at 9:00 am middle school. The results of both surveyes were observed and compared. What researchers found out was that students were geting better grades when they get full-time sleep than when they had to wake-up one hour earlier. Also, traffic accidents decreased. In my opinion, this research was very important because we can see how one hour sleep may change our academic excellence, even our life.

Sources: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081215074351.htm

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